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ABOUT THE ASYLUM,

Charges Made Against Builders of the Institution.
Hastings Democrat.

The Omaha Bee of Monday morning contained a long account regarding the manner in which the present Hastings asylum is built. The writer seems to know bis business because he says the job is rotten throughout. He says that the superintendent in construction and contractors were a party to the steal. There is nothing new about this. The Democrat raised all the howl it could in 1888, when the building was in progress of erection. We stated then and believe now that the main building will have to be torn down within the next five years because it will be unsafe The board of public lands and buildings as the constituted coming as it did from a democratic source. The Democrat's charges The correspondent states that rain beats through the wall and roof, and that outrageous defects are being discovered every day. The time to have noticed these defects, however, was when the building was being completed and before it was turned over to the state. What does it profit Hasting now, to have all these defects in her public institution laid bare to the world? The best course is to see that the new wings are built in a substantial and creditable manner. Hastings is not benefitted throughout the state by the changes made in the Bee. If the facts set forth in communication had been know to the last legislature, Hastings would not have received a cent's appropriation for the new building.